Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the heart failure cohort

	90‐day mortality N = 1472	No mortality N = 7421	P‐value
Gender
Male (%)	639 (43.4%)	3388 (45.7%)	0.114
Age	84.4 [77.5–90.1]	80.0 [70.1–85.9]	<0.001
Modified frailty index
Depression	1 (0.1%)	15 (0.2%)	0.276
Parkinson's disease	18 (1.2%)	55 (0.7%)	0.061
Arthritis	7 (0.5%)	33 (0.4%)	0.872
Paranoia	0 (0.0%)	7 (0.1%)	0.239
Skin ulcer	35 (2.4%)	71 (1.0%)	<0.001
Pneumonia	549 (37.3%)	1492 (20.1%)	<0.001
Falls	36 (2.5%)	154 (2.08%)	0.369
Skin and soft tissue infection	17 (1.2%)	82 (1.1%)	0.868
Mycoses	2 (0.1%)	17 (0.2%)	0.479
Gouty arthropathy	87 (5.9%)	354 (4.8%)	0.066
UTI	209 (14.2%)	560 (7.6%)	<0.001
Charlson score ≥2	775 (52.7%)	697 (47.4%)	<0.001
Inflammatory and nutritional indices
PNI	41.5 [37.0–46.0]	44.5 [40.4–48.8]	<0.001
NLR	5.5 [3.1–9.8]	4.2 [2.6–7.4]	<0.001

NLR, neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio; PNI, prognostic nutritional index; UTI, urinary tract infection.

Values in bold indicate P < 0.05.